---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001482981-24-000105"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COCO"
cik: "0001482981"
company_name: "Vita Coco Company, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-08-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T13:04:30.229930+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Vita Coco Chief Accounting Officer resigns; CFO assumes interim role

## Summary
- Rowena Ricalde resigns as CAO, effective August 16, 2024, to pursue another opportunity.
- Departure is not due to any disagreement with the Company's financial statements or operations.
- CFO Corey Baker will assume interim PAO duties starting August 16, 2024, with no additional compensation.
- Baker has served as CFO and principal financial officer since March 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001482981-24-000105
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COCO
- cik: 0001482981
- company_name: Vita Coco Company, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-08-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1482981/000148298124000105/0001482981-24-000105-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1482981/000148298124000105/coco-20240805.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rowena Ricalde resigned as Chief Accounting Officer at Vita Coco Company, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On July 30, 2024, Rowena Ricalde notified The Vita Coco Company, Inc. (the “Company”), of her resignation as Chief Accounting Officer of the Company (“CAO”) and principal accounting officer of the Company (“PAO”), to be effective as of August 16, 2024, in order to pursue another opportunity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1482981/000148298124000105/0001482981-24-000105-index.htm
- Executive change
  Corey Baker changed role as interim principal accounting officer at Vita Coco Company, Inc..
  - Action: assumed
  - Role: interim principal accounting officer
  source text: Effective as of August 16, 2024, and until such time as a replacement is named, Corey Baker, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company (“CFO”) and principal financial officer of the Company (“PFO”), is expected to assume the role of PAO on an interim basis.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1482981/000148298124000105/0001482981-24-000105-index.htm

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